This 21-Video series by Gobala Krishnan features the following information:

• The Importance of SEO – Before you start applying SEO to your WordPress blog, you need to understand why it is so important.
• The Power of Keyword Research – If you aren’t creating posts that are focused on specific keywords, you are literally taking a stab in the dark at achieving natural search engine rankings. Let me show you how to perform effective keyword research.
• What Plugins You Need to Make Optimization a Cakewalk – There are a ton of free plugins out there that make SEO a breeze. I will show you the best one’s that you’ll need, and how they operate.
• How to Create an “Optimized Post” – I will take you step-by-step through creating an optimized post from the ground up.
• How to Deal with URL Canonization – I will show you how to fix a fatal flaw in WordPress that can actually dilute your natural search engine rankings if you don’t take action now.
• How to Setup an Effective Navigation Structure – Learn how to structure your blog to make it easy for the search engines to understand exactly what you are offering.
• How to Encourage Visitor Interaction - Engaging your blog audience is very important. I will show you (along with the help of some excellent plugins) how to do this effectively.
• How to Harness the Power of Social Networks – Social networks are becoming increasingly important. Learn how to use them to propel your blog to new heights.

By making a few changes taught to you in this video series, you will have an advantage over 90% of other Wordpress blog owners who do not optimize their blogs.

This isn’t “Black Hat SEO” – all the tactics revealed by Gobala in the videos are 100% legal and ethical. Google will not ban your blog – instead it will love it and rewards you for a job well done with truckloads of traffic for free!

WordPress SEO Secrets are professionally recorded videos to easily guide you to top search engine rankings . Learn everything you need to know about optimizing your WordPress blog for the search engines.

No matter what niche market you’re in SEO is vital for your long terms survival. You simply cannot buy or borrow traffic forever. Secure your copy of WordPress SEO Secrets today and learn a foolproof formula you can apply to your WordPress blogs to get FREE search engine traffic.

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In three hours with Kelly you will:

• Get a complete tour of the Wordpress Dashboard.
• Learn the difference between posts and pages.
• Learn How To Use the Visual Editor to create great looking blog posts.
• Learn about categories and tags and how to use them!
• Learn about Plugins
• Learn about Widgets
• Learn about Themes
• Learn about Exporting/Importing and Backups.
• Get Answers to All Of Your Questions!

Ask all the questions you want until you feel like you’ve got what you need to move forward!

Upcoming Sessions:

Wednesday, September 30th, 8:00 – 11:00pm Eastern
Cost: $19 – Sign up information here

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Though titled Backing up your ZenCart database in phpMyAdmin, the instructions will work the exact same for WordPress database files.

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Business World Theme – FREE

Demo | Download

Busy Bee

Demo | Download

Tauren Pro

Demo | Download

Live Wire – Available in multiple colors

Demo | Download

What are your favorite premium themes? Share your bookmarks below.

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1. HeadSpace2 – Download HeadSpace 3.6.27 Here

HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

2. Link Hopper – Download Link Hopper v.1.3

This plugin is a MUST HAVE for all of my affiliate sites using WordPress.

If you run a Wordpress installation and want to use affiliate links, it can get a bit ugly. Wouldn’t it be nice to link to www.yoursite.com/hop/name instead?

Historically, this is usually accomplished with a standalone PHP redirect, or a line in the .htaccess file.

Now you can do it through the Wordpress administration.  This plugin allows you to configure a hop name, and a hop destination.  When you link to yoursite.com/hop/TAG/, the visitor will be redirected to your chosen destination.

3. SEO Friendly Images – Download SEO Image Here

SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.

ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.

TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the image.

4. SimpleTags – Download Version 2.0 Here

If you are using Technorati to increase your blog traffic, you definitely want to consider using SimpleTags. Some of the themes I am using have this built-in. Very nice.

SimpleTags is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries. There are several plugins already available for this purpose, but they all require you to use custom fields within WordPress. The SimpleTags plugin eliminates this need, so you can now easily generate tags with your preferred method of posting, be it by email, a blogging tool like w.bloggar or from WordPress itself.

5. WP-Print – Download WP-Print 2.50 Here

This plugin is great if you are providing articles users might want to print and read later.

Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.

Which plugins are you using on your blog?  Share your favorites below.

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Template Monster provides high quality themes and excellent after purchase support. Plus they charge no more than other premium theme designers. If you are wanting to customize the look of your blog, but need help with the design, then I highly recommend viewing the themes available at Template Monster. To view one of the themes below, click on details. A new window will open with a live demo of the theme along with screen shots.




Pricing information:

Non-exclusive price means that other people can buy and use the same template.

Exclusive means that after you buy the template, Template Monster will stop selling the template.

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Theme Name: Thesis

Cost: Starts at $87

Support: Lifetime theme upgrades. Complete access to the Thesis forums. Downloadable “stuff” that you can use to customize and enhance your theme (like background images and styles). Support from the designer of the theme.

Where to download: Visit their website to download.

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First, login to your GoDaddy hosting control panel.

Once logged in, choose “Go Daddy Hosting Connection” under the “Content” tab:

The following screen will then appear:

To the left, click on the link “Blogs”

The menu will expand with options. Click on “WordPress”

When the next screen appears, click on “Install Now!” to start the installation.

GoDaddy will ask you to accept theit erms of use. Click on “I Agree” to continue.

You will then be asked to choose the domain you want to use for the install.

Check the box next to your domain name and then click on “Continue”

You will then be asked to select a password for your database. Enter a password and click on “Next”

You will now need to enter a name for the folder that WordPress will be installed to. Examples would be blog, wordpress, or similar. Leave this BLANK to have WordPress installed in the main directory.

Click on “Next” to continue.

You are almost finished!

The last step is to enter your configuration details. These can all be changed later.

You will need to enter the following (write these down in case you forget them):

1. Admin Name – can be your name, admin, owner. whatever you like.
2. Admin Password – choose a password and verify it
3. Email – enter your email address
4. Blog Title – the name of your blog

Click on “Finish” once you have entered everything.

That is it! The following message will appear letting you know that your install request has been submitted. Your WordPress blog will be up and running shortly.

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I have been busy working on a custom word press theme for one of my clients. One request was to display recent posts as text AND as thumbnails. Specifically, they wanted to pull an image from the post to display in the side bar. I tried a variety of plugins but none worked for our exact needs. I played around with some code and finally came up with something that worked. It doesn’t create thumbnails automatically, they have to be created first, but it works close enough for the client.

NOTE: I have only tested this code with WordPress 2.7

The first thing you will need to do is edit your sidebar.php (or similar) file in WordPress. I am assuming you already know how to edit your theme files, but just in case…

1. Login to your admin area for WordPress
2. Click on Editor under “Appearance” in the left side menu

3. Open the sidebar.php file

Okay, now you will need to decide where you want the thumbnails to appear in your side menu. Once you have the spot picked, copy and paste the following code into the file:

<?php $myposts = get_posts(‘meta_key=post_thumbnail’);
foreach($myposts as $post) >
<?php $thumbnail = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘post_thumbnail’, true); ?>

<a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”>
<img src=”<?php echo $thumbnail; ?>” alt=”<?php the_title(); ?>” />
</a>

<?php endforeach; ?>

You can add special parameters for the way thumbnails are displayed including:

• orderby=title (to display thumbnails in order by post title)
• order=ASC (to display ABC order)
• order=DES (to display ZYX order)
• numberposts=XX (number of thumbnails to display)

These would be added directly after meta_key=post_thumbnail using the symbol “&” to separate each.

Save your sidebar.php file

We can now add in the thumbnails to your posts.

Click to edit the post you would like to add a thumbnail for. Once the post has opened, scroll down until you see a section titled “Custom Fields” as shown below:

Click on “Enter New” and type in post_thumbnail

FYI: After adding it the first time, you will be able to select this option from a drop down menu in the future

In the “Value” box, type in the URL to your thumbnail image.

Click on the button “Add Custom Field” to add your thumbnail image.

That’s it! Your thumbnail should now appear in your sidebar.

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